Guys, that 'South Africans don't travel' comment, should rather be "Black South Africans havent travelled in the past, and have only recently started doing so'. I think thats the more accurate reflection. I had a conversation with a European colleague, and they said that they'd always met Caucasian South Africans in Europe, Asia, Australia, the US etc, however, only in the last few years have they seen Black South Africans abroad. I agree with this. We havent always had the economic resources to travel abroad for leisure or work, so thats changing. Also, our economy and political environment has been reasonably stable, so we havent historically had to 'flee' our country for refuge elsewhere (save for Apartheid, but even then our people didnt leave in large numbers to settle in other countries for exile).
🤣🤣🤣the moment Bonga said there is something wanted to say but I forgot 🤣🤣🤣❤️..I just love this family shem.. Ursh🤣🤣 I love you maan❤️..Shout out to Given😁❤️
Ndiyamva mna shem u Bonga, back in high school, a Christian school at that, I was part of a group called BOC (Bitches Of Corruption), we had it written all over our desks and everything. We were all quite good girls and I really don’t know why we decided to call ourselves that. We were called out then we decided to call ourselves The Angel Squad and gave each other angel names😂😂😂
The comment about South Africans not travelling, I would like to say. There is a difference between travelling nd looking for resources or better life. So if you look at other countries in Africa for example, they not travelling they looking for resources which is what we used to do during apartheid. Also now if you look at the number of SA leaving is high now because of our economy but I am not sure if we should categories looking for resources as travelling. People that travel is Europeans that is called travelling
i think xenophobia is partly an economic/scarcity problem (the mentality to scrap and fight at the bottom, so any contender is an enemy) the same reason why attacks occur in low income neighbourhoods. its also coupled with internalised inferiority complexes, there was a time when foreigners who came here where mostly high value skilled people who would end up climbing the socio economic ladder faster than locals, thats up until 2010 i think, thats the generation of immigrants id assume to be Ursula's dad and my dad as well, and the fact that as a first gen immigrant im expected to excell because i have a zimbabwean surname informs the dynamic. so i think the resentment has been growing but it is amplified by poverty. and whats more problematic is politicians capitalising on this problem but with no actual solutions and twitter bots that spread fake immigrant crime stories.
It’s a very baseless statement to say South Africans don’t travel, let’s rather look into WHY South Africans don’t travel? The wealthiest province is Gauteng. In Gauteng, a city with the best opportunities for jobs, some 610,000 people live in poverty. It might seem like a small number but when you cancel out minors, pensioners, foreigners and unemployed people then you see the severity of the % from the total population of the employed. It is estimated that almost 63% of the population is living below the upper-middle income poverty line, around 1.8 million more poor people relative to the pre-pandemic period. And in the same breath you expect those very same people to be able to fight out the Somalian shops, forgetting that those very people offer a means of survival. On the internet we tend to forget that it’s full of the very few middle/upper class people that can even afford data nvm being able to sit through a 30min podcast conversation and have an understanding of what is actually being discussed. So yes, South Africans might not be people who travel because Au’s Moipone and Bra Tshepo have to make sure that the VERY LITTLE that they make is enough to get them to and from work for the month, make sure the children are fed and clothed and there’s some electricity ofcourse when there’s no loadshedding. I won’t talk about fuel because they can’t afford a car so how do we expect South Africans to be well traveled?! The number stats that I cited are all from Stats SA.
I agree with ReasYTchannel! Ursula can be bais when it comes to foreigners. What about our lived experiences where we are violated by foreigners? We didn't just wake up and decide to hate a group of people just because they are from a different country. Why is it, when South Africans take matters into their own hands to deal with their own citizens who rape, kill, steal, etc, it is seen as resisting crime because they rightfully fed up! but when the same actions are carried out to foreigners its labled xenophobic? that's pathetic and a easy way out of not not holding them accountable for their actions.
Can we talk about how difficult it is to adjust your mindset after moving from a toxic work place to a healthy one, how months into the healthy environment you end up feeling like you don't belong or you don't know what to do or how to do it anymore, maybe because that pressure is not there anymore, that toxicity is not there anymore and maybe that's what used to fuel you
South Africans don’t travel to Africa because of the infrastructure in most african countries. And also the standard of most 1st world nations is the same if not below that of South Africa hence mostly would rather enjoy in the country rather than travel under the impression that you will see and find something different and only to be surprised 😲 by how much better South Africa is than most countries.
